Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-10-14

DOuy was lOuuu on tOnanlcut behcH. ne
had been drowned while trying to escape
10y swimming.
An attempt was made TO wreck pas.
senger train on the Illinois a st. Louis
railroad near Belleville, Ill. Two men
have been arrested and confessed that
they pulledthe spikes but claim they were
drunk at the time.
Sam Branch, colorsd, OF Cincinnati, was
convicted Of grand larceny at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn. and upon hearing the sen
tence, exclaimed: "God knows ] am in
nocent" and plunged a knife into his
throat, killing himself.
Leaders of various Protestant denomi-
nations have issued call for general
conference OF evangelical christians OF
the United States at Washington Dec. Z,
and 2 next, to consider questions affect
ing the welfare of the whole church.
The revenue cutter Bear reports the
seizure on August "a of the British schoon-
or Ada, with 800 seal skins, and the
American schooner Allie Alger, with Loo
skins subsequently the American schoon-
er Candy was taken, with 200 skins.
James McAvoy, aged 20, of Thompkins
Jackson county, has been held for trial
for shooting ut John Clark with shot
gun, Sept. 81. The men are seighbors, and
the shooting grew out OF n row about
some turkey that were in Clark's wheat
A committee composed of some of the
leading business men of Detroit has been
Apo inted to perfect an organization and
plans for permanent exposition in that
city. The committee are very much in
earnest in the matter, and are confident
Of success
Kentucky's court OF appeals has rem
dered decision that "Bill' Patterson
one OF the murderers of Jennie Overman,
last April, must hang although on the
scaffold Alfred Turner, an accomplice,
made "a confession, stating that Patterson
was an innocent man.
Gen. Pitcairn Morrison. United States
Army (retired), aged - years, died in
Baltimore on the 9Th inst. He was a
native of New York City, and in 1920 was
appointed Second Lieutenant of Artillery
ia the regular army. lie was subsequent
ly transferred TO the infantry.
The interstate commerce commission
has submitted to the secretary Of the in
terror its estimates for the next fiscal
year. they are as follows: Salaries of
commissioners, So 500; salary of secreta-
ry, $1,000; all other necessary expenses,
$4,000 total 500, 900. The present APP
preparation is 100000.
Margaretta Davis, aged % years
daughter of a wealthy coal dealer Of
Reading, Pa, married Adam Lens, Que of
her fathers cart drivers. When the pair
On al Mt al fnr ha
regulation blessing, Papa Davis seized
his daughter. The husband has brought
suit to recover his wife.
Gov. Moonlight of Wyoming territory
in his annual report to Washington says
that, contrary to the general belief, the
territory is adapted TO farming as we'll as
grazing purposes The present population
Is - 900. Soft coal is found in all parts Of
the territory ana valuable oil fields have
recently been discovered.
Gen. Crook report Of the recent tie
uprising is an arraignment OF the whites
engaged in the trouble, showing that they
were the agitators in every instance, and
that the Indians only resisted TO save the
lives of the women and children and their
herds. The whites broke faith with the
indians numerous times.
A United State Marshall sold in Vicks-
burg, Miss, the other day, 10000 acres
of land in that state to satisfy a judgment
Of 500, 90 in favor of William II. Thomp-
son, trustee of the estate of Henry Clews
OF New York, against the Salem, Marion
* Memphis railroad. The entire parcel of
land was bid in for $1,000.
The following state ticket has been
nominated by the New York greenback
party: For secretary of state Rev. Thos.
X. Beecher of Chemung; for comptroller,
Sylvester Trip of Duchess; for state
treasurer, j. Madison Hall OF Madison;
for state engineer and surveyor, Edwin
A. Stillman of Ontario county.
Mr.. Milburn, prohibition member of
the Tennessee Legislature, being at Green
vile, in that state, remarked that the
people thereabout had sold out to the
whisky men. A young person by the
name OF Ward imprudently disputed this
proposition and intimated that the legis-
lator was liar. Whereupon Mr.. Milburn
Immediately shot the young man dead.
1t 10 stated that John Kemper has made
confession that he murdered his brother,
Henry Kemper, who was found dead in
his grocery at Cincinnati in December,
1855. A Negro who was tried for the muir
der was acquitted. John Kemper is al
legged TO have made the confession after
he had been fatally injured in IA railway
accident.
The exploratory survey party sent to
Northern British Columbia will winter
near Fort Reliance, about 1000 miles north
OF Victoria. The party will endeayor TO
penetrate across the country as far north
rs Mackenzie's bay on the Arctic ocean.
The explorers will start for home 10y
new route, descending Mackenzie river
and entering civilization at Edmonton
The national farmers alliance, at its
annual session in Minneapolis. elected the
following officers for the ensuing year;
President, J. Burrows, Nebraska; vice
president, ex-senator l.. ID. Whiting, Hi.
nois; secretary, August Post, Iowa; treas
urer, J. j. Furlong, Minnesota; lecturer,
A. ID. Chase, Dakota. The next meeting
Of the alliance will be held in Des Moines,
Iowa.